UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The ship's visit to the Italian port of Civitavecchia came during its continuing operational deployment to that sea, and the Passage Exercise with the Italian Naval Ship Carlo Margottini was held in the same waters shortly before the ship entered harbour.

The Indian Naval Ship Trishul conducted a Passage Exercise with this Italian Naval Ship just before it entered harbour at Civitavecchia.

Civitavecchia is an Italian port, and the Indian Naval Ship Trishul arrived there in the course of its ongoing operational deployment to the Mediterranean Sea.

The statistics ministry stated that these two questions were added at that Ministry's request, so that establishments engaged in handloom, power-loom and handicraft work can be identified within the survey frame.

The revised schedule introduces, for the first time, questions on the constraints women face in operating and managing their establishments, to build an evidence base on the factors affecting female-led enterprises in the unincorporated sector.

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has proposed moving the Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises from the calendar-year cycle it has followed so far to the financial year, so that its reference period matches that of other enterprise surveys such as the Annual Survey of Industries and the…

While explaining the amendment, the Ministry noted that flex fuel technology is already in use in these countries, where vehicles are built to operate on a range of ethanol and petrol blends drawn from a single fuel tank.

E85 is a blend of petrol and ethanol in which ethanol forms up to that share by volume. In this notation the letter E denotes ethanol while the number indicates the proportion of ethanol present in the fuel, which is why E100 refers to a fuel consisting predominantly of ethanol.

The Ministry notified amendments to these rules so that vehicles capable of running on E85 and other high ethanol fuels can be certified and brought into use.

Shri Amit Shah, Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, unveiled the Vision Document on Narcotic Control for 2026 to 2029 in June 2026.

The training will be delivered through six central government institutions under the Drug De-addiction Programme, and the NDDTC at AIIMS, which is located at Ghaziabad, will coordinate the overall implementation of the initiative.

Under the Vision Document on Narcotic Control for the period 2026 to 2029, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has been entrusted with building the capacity of this many service providers, including medical and allied healthcare personnel engaged in de-addiction services, by March 2029.

Chief Minister Shri Suvendu Adhikari, speaking at the flagging-off ceremony, said the annual average railway allocation for West Bengal during the years from 2009 to 2014 was Rs 4,380 crore, and that it has risen to the figure in option C for the current year.

While flagging off the new express train, the Railway Minister said that this many stations in Jharkhand are being rebuilt under the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme, and that work has already been finished at several of them, among them Godda, Govindpur Road, Lohardaga, Madhupur and Muri.

The service is named the Jaipur (Khatipura)-Tatanagar-Santragachi Express, and it was flagged off by the Union Railway Minister, who joined through video conferencing, together with the Chief Minister of West Bengal.

Speaking at the seminar, the Raksha Mantri said indigenisation needed a broader approach and asked for such a roadmap to identify and prioritise technologies that can serve civilian as well as military needs, including those required for civil and military shipping.

The Raksha Mantri said that start-ups and micro, small and medium enterprises had submitted more than 4,000 proposals against 229 challenges issued by the Indian Navy under the Innovations for Defence Excellence scheme, which he treated as a measure of both the depth of Indian talent and the enthusiasm of…

SWAVLAMBAN is the Naval Innovation and Indigenisation Seminar, and the Indian Navy organises it in collaboration with the Defence Innovation Organisation and the Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers.

The Election Commission of India sorts political parties into three categories under the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968: National Parties, State Parties (recognised in particular states) and Registered Unrecognised Parties.

The Sahajiya cult grew out of late Tantric Buddhism in eastern India, especially Bengal, and is often called Sahajayana, a branch of Vajrayana.